Corset



(Model.')

Q. N. OHADWIOK.

GOBSET.

272. Patented Mar.20, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. k

CHARLES N. OHADWICK, OF BROOKLYN,NEW YORK.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION fo'rming part of Letters Patent Ii'o. 274,272, dated March 20, 1883.

Applicatin filed December i, 1882. (Model.)

T all whom z't may conceflz:

Be it known that I, CHARLES N. CHADWICK, of Brdoklyn, in the county of Kings and. State of New York, have invented a new Improve-' ment in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the tollowing, when taken in eonneetion with a0 companying drawings ahd the letters 0f referenee marked' thereon,to be a full, clear, and exact: description ofthe same, am]. which seid drawings constituce part 0f th-isspeoifieation,

- and represent, in-

Figure 1, a side view; Fig. 2, a transverse section throughthe strip l; Fig. 3,the hipsection; Fi'g. 4, the freut, with the overlying flaps for the stays.

"lhis invention relates to an improvement in corsets, with speeial reference to the hip-section, and such asa're provided with a, certain amount of elastieity in thal: seetion.

In order that; a oorset ma.y fit a person with easeand yield to the movements of the hocly,

elastie devices have been introduced et different points, top andbottom. In sonne cases this has been done by cutting out a portion of the corset and extending elastic strips across the openin'g. In other cases elastic gores have been introduced; bot generally with such elastic devices a difficulty has been experiencd in the liability ofthe corset; 130 curl 0x wrinkle. Again, in the use ot' this dass of corsets, in

- whieh an opening has been lefl: in the corset,

the opposite'edges connected by elastie strips, a serious objeotion arises, from the fach oh-ab the }garmenta and flesh 0f the wearer protrude through the opening and interfere materially with the comfort of the wearer, as well as t'he shape of the person desired to be gi ven by the corset.

The object of myinvention is to overeome these difficulties; and it eonsists in a corset constructed with a vertical opening or openin gs from the bottom upward, and from the top downward, either o r both, toward the weistline, one portion construoled. with an extension to pass inside the other, leaving the LWO parts free to play the one upon the other, and

the edge of the outer 01 overlapping part proh vided with a stay hinged to the hody of the'corsei: near the waist-line, its free end eonnected to the underlying partat a points distant from the flaps a b, and so as to draw the outer parl:

over the under part, 5et permit the free play 0f the parts.

In illustrating my.invention show it a's applied tothe hip-seetion. A represents the rear portion, and B Lhe fronl: portion; O, 1he hip-section, whieh eonneots the freut and rear, am] extends from under the arm down over the hip. AI; the rear edge of the front seetion, B, 1 form a. flap, a, ab the bottom, and b at the top, extending baekward onto the hip-section. They n1ay be cut as a part of the f'ront section, or made separate and attaehed to the rear edge of the fronbseetion. They extend to near the waist-line, and an their weist end are left free from the section, 130 which they are :attaehed er made a part: of by a slit, d. (See Fig. .4.) The flaps a b a1e each formed with a pockel: to rec'eive the stay.

'lhe hip-section O is Gut at the central portion- 130 meet the front portion, es from e to f, .and is stitehed to the central part: ot' the reer edge of the front seetion, B, bat left free above &nd below, and above and. below the points where attachment is made the seetion has extensions D E, (see Fig. 3,) whieh nnderlie the flaps a b when the parts are stitehed. together. 'Ihe flaps a b are pivoted to the bod y of t:he corset, as at h, atthe apex of the slit, near the waist-line, so as to leave the fiaps a b, with the stays in their poekets, free 130 tlil'lil upon tha.t

pivoted point, einher to the front: or rear. The free ends 0'f the flaps a b are eonnected by an elastio strip, l, outside of and to a point 011 the hip-seetion at er near its opposite edge, whieh eompletes the eorset. The hinged 01 pivoted flaps or pockets inclosing st;ays overlatp the adjacent paut of the corset, so that es in is expanded by the shape of the wearer o: movements of her body no opening is produced in the corset. II: fits as closely as if hohe corset Were w'1thout slil: or opening. The flaps inelosing stays, being hinged to the body of the eorset, readily turn forward or baekward without the 'usual bending, es where the stay extends from top to bottorn they must bend transversely as the shape ofthe body varies.

While I prefer to make the opening a1: the top and bottom of the corset, in may be only ab the top, or only ab the bottom.

The underlying extensions D E ma-y be provided With stays, in the usual manner of stay- IOO in g c0rsets and generall y should be stayed, as they will keep their place bettet than without stays.

While I pref'er to make the openings ab the front edge, they may be made a1; the rear. In that case the hinged stays will be placed a1: the real, the elastic strips l extending forward, and the uuderlying extensions would be backward instead 0f forwewd, it only being essential 170 the invention that the outer 0r overlying edge sball be provided with the hinged stay, and that the underlying part sball have an extension over which the stay will play backward and forward, und the free end. of the 20 the corset; where elasticity is desirable.

I claim-- 1. A corset constructed with vertical sli ts extending t near the waist-line, one edge provided wich a. pocket: inclosing a stay hinged t0 the body of the corset ab the apex of the slit, an extension from the opposite edge beneath, and so as to underlie the stay-pocket, and 0v er which the hin ged stay-pocket will freely move and an elastic connectioufrom the free end outo the part havin'g the underlying extension, substantially as described.

2. A corset constructed with vertical s1its extending 130 near the waist-line, one edge provided with a pocket inclosing a stsay, an extension from the opposite edge, beneabh and so as to underlie said pocket, and over which the pocke t will freely move, and an elastic connection from the free end onto the part; having the underlyingextension, substantially as described. v

CHARLES N. OHADWICK.

Witnesses:

LILLIAN D. KELSEY, Jos. C. EARLE. 

